Simplicity

Notational Velocity Update

My favorite Mac application, Notational Velocity, has gotten an update. Here are a couple of the highlights: Option for horizontal layout with multi-line previews in notes list – Personal preference. I like the default layout, but a lot of folks are sure to prefer horizontal. Fully plain-text-based automatic list-bullet formatting – Easy list formatting while [...]

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Instascriber

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Instapaper is a crucial part of my workflow. Anything I find that looks interesting but don’t have time to read right away gets tossed into Instapaper. Quite a few items from my feed reader (Reeder on both Mac and iPhone) get Instapaper’ed too – it’s just a great way to read medium to long articles. [...]

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Words

Short, simple, and profound post by james Shelly. Words matter.

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Thoughts on Evernote

Trey Heath on Evernote: Sitting at my desk, I looked up to see a To Do on my calendar that said, “organize Evernote.” Here I am devoting time out of my day to organize information in a piece of software that is suppose to keep my information organized. If you’re the type to clip every [...]

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Choices

Choice is one of the greatest things we humans have going for us. We can choose nearly everything in our life – what job to have, who to marry, whether to have kids or not, where to live, what to eat, etc. Nearly everything in life is a choice, and you get to make it. [...]

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Problem Solving

Recently I was presented with a frustrating situation at work. A coworker — let’s call him Toby, emailed me with an issue he was having. Toby has a particular job that requires him to work with folks at other local businesses. In this particular transaction, he was simply lost. Our company (Company A) bought something [...]

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